Sven Svenson had a pretty good individual year for the Colorado Raptors in his third season with the team.  In 50 games, Sven had 16 goals and 22 assists for a combined 38 points.  He set his goal for the season on 40 points and beating his last years total of 18 goals, but he fell short in both of those efforts. In S53, Sven went 18-15-33 on the top line of a mediocre to bad Colorado team. This year, he improved on that through generating assists on a better team but didn’t score at the same rate. Despite increasing his shots on goal from 135 to 169, Sven could not find the back of the net. His shooting percentage decreased from 13.3% to 9.5% as he desperately threw pucks at the net from bad angles.  Sven gets very few penalties and only had 14 PIMs last year and 6 PIMs this year. He was -6 this year and -4 last year as defense has always been a challenge for Sven.



As a player with an agent who became the co-GM/coach of my won team, I think I will watch some of finals between Carolina and Anaheim because it’s going to be exciting hockey. Carolina is coming off a big Game 7 win over Newfoundland. Whether the team will be tired or can continue their momentum into the Finals will be really fun to watch. That being said, I don’t think I’ll watch every game or watch with anyone in particular.  I especially don’t want to have to watch it with Richard Hogsworth, my agent who suddenly became the co-GM and a coach for the team. I will watch it at my ski home which is just a few hours outside of Denver. I like to go there in the summer to go on hikes and enjoy the nature. I also like to do rigorous training like sprints up and down the mountain.



(Clean) Andrei knows where his brother is, because he was with Sergei Kostitsyn when he disappeared. (Clean) Andrei likes to ask where his brother is to attract attention to his disappearance, but he knows the truth – that Sergei was an undercover Russian spy using the cover of a professional hockey player to do James Bond villain level espionage on whatever city he was visiting. Sergei became disillusioned with his political overlords and tried to break away to save his brother, (Clean) Andrei, but he suddenly vanished one morning. (Clean) Andrei has been on a mission ever since to spread the word and ask people to investigate where his brother is.


Sweden will break through and finally win the Gold this year in WJC. After coming up short in the championship game and walking away with Silver last year, Sweden is poised to finally break through and take home the Gold to King Carl. King Carl is a huge fan and went to every game last year, I expect he does the same this year. A team that is a perennial powerhouse is UCORCAL, which should have Russia split off it from how many of those players have come overseas to the SMJHL recently. DACH is always competitive and will be again. The US and Canada should have enough active players to always be competitive and they usually are. Team World also has a very strong roster this year and could surprise some people while making a run for a medal. Finland is an up and coming nation which has a bright future, but still short on the veteran talent needed to go far in this tournament.



Flack Lagerfield has a good chance at making the Hall of Fame. Aside from his stunning 84 point S54 performance, Lagerfield has continuously scored at an impressive pace. In his first season in S43, Lagerfield scored 14 goals and 11 assists for 25 points in 50 games. He had a sophomore slump with only 17 points in the next season, but from there went on a tear of 40+ point seasons including a 53 point, 66 point, 49 point, 51 point, 71 point, and 84 point seasons.  Included in those are 6 20+ goal seasons, 1 30+ goal season, and 1 40+ goal season. He’s also won the Sarmad Khan (S48, S53), Aidan Richan (S45), Sergei Karpotsev (S48, S53), and the Ron Mexico (S48).



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